Here's a rather, um, life-affirming little short by "Where the Wild Things Are" helmer Spike Jonze, in which the skeleton of Macbeth tears himself off the cover of his own book to jump the bones (literally) of Mina Harker on the cover of "Dracula." Complications ensue, Herman Melville is involved.
We guarantee you've never quite seen a short film like this, which is animated entirely using 2-D handcrafted felt puppets designed by Olympia Le-Tan, who also wrote the script. Olympia has specialized in making book cover reproductions using this style.
Shot at France's Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the initial live-action segment features her father, Pierre Le-Tan whom movie fans may recognize as the illustrator for the covers of several Whit Stillman DVDs on the Criterion Collection, such as "Metropolitan" and "Last Days of Disco."
Jonze himself voices Macbeth, and French singer Soko lends her voice to Harker as well as...
We guarantee you've never quite seen a short film like this, which is animated entirely using 2-D handcrafted felt puppets designed by Olympia Le-Tan, who also wrote the script. Olympia has specialized in making book cover reproductions using this style.
Shot at France's Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the initial live-action segment features her father, Pierre Le-Tan whom movie fans may recognize as the illustrator for the covers of several Whit Stillman DVDs on the Criterion Collection, such as "Metropolitan" and "Last Days of Disco."
Jonze himself voices Macbeth, and French singer Soko lends her voice to Harker as well as...
- 10/19/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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